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October 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America (PSCA) has released its annual survey of current practices and trends in Profit Sharing and 401(k) Plans.

October 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Growth in the consumer driven health plan (CDHP) segment is expected to increase dramatically in the next year as the majority of Health...

November 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors are apparently laboring under massive confusion about the rules governing brokers and financial advisors and the differences between the two, according to...

November 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recently released paper is questioning the validity of reported hedge fund returns, claiming that backfill and survivorship biases in hedge fund indices...

November 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has accepted a staff recommendation to kick off a wide-ranging exam of pension fund and post retirement...

October 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The economic value of stock option grants at the nation's largest corporations declined by almost 60% over the last three years from a...

November 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In what seems likely to be the start of another corporate governance battle, two California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) board members have...

November 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After sitting on the sidelines for months - and with some apparently still not wholly satisfied with the terms - a majority of...

November 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ING Group has split and sold its Baring Asset Management unit, with the Financial Services Group going to Northern Trust and the global...

October 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many Employers whose workers have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina are promising to continue paying the staffers indefinitely, according to a new poll.

October 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California judge has tossed out a $700-million punitive damage award to California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi in the Executive Life Insurance Co....

November 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Standard Management Corporation has announced that it has signed a non-binding letter of intent to sell its Financial Services Division to an...

October 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Rumors swirled through the financial services industry Friday that embattled Marsh & McLennan chief executive officer Jeffrey Greenberg will step down - a...

October 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Truck maker Navistar International is apparently the latest target of federal securities regulators about its pension and health-care accounting practices.

October 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Putnam Investments, the Boston-based mutual fund family perhaps hardest hit by the mutual fund trading scandal, axed about 70 Boston-area jobs Thursday as...

October 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employee of Intel has filed a law suit charging that workers who buy life insurance and other similar coverage through their employers...

October 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The sweeping probe into price-fixing and bid-rigging in the insurance industry by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has apparently expanded to include...

September 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees of a Western Michigan manufacturer feared their 401(k) plan assets may be in trouble when they showed up for work earlier this...

August 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal investigators have subpoenaed the records of investment deals by the Illinois Teachers Retirement System that generated $4.5 million in fees to a...

August 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Milford, Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty in federal court to charges he executed market timing transactions for seven hedge fund clients.